transhumant

More importantly, this definition is not completely satisfactory for pastoralists, some of whose shared assets, servants/slaves, or family members might be away with flocks and herds during transhumant seasons, but still were materially and emotionally connected to people "back home" sharing a daily meal.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

The nomads are transhumant pastoralists, raising many thousands of goats and camels with a few sheep, donkeys and cattle who still live in balance with their harsh environment despite the stresses caused by social change.

Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger 2008

Honey would always have featured strongly among the peasant farmers of Russia, but among the nomads and transhumant herders and shepherds of Kyrgyzstan it is likely that beekeeping was introduced as part of the Soviet de-nomadization programme that began in the 1920s.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Only a couple of generations ago, until the 1920s, the local Kyrgyz people were nomads or transhumant herders, accustomed to moving uphill into the mountains for the summer grazing and living under the stars.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Honey would always have featured strongly among the peasant farmers of Russia, but among the nomads and transhumant herders and shepherds of Kyrgyzstan it is likely that beekeeping was introduced as part of the Soviet de-nomadization programme that began in the 1920s.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Only a couple of generations ago, until the 1920s, the local Kyrgyz people were nomads or transhumant herders, accustomed to moving uphill into the mountains for the summer grazing and living under the stars.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Socio-economic activities have declined during last 50 years, although transhumant grazing still occur, with livestock being grazed on the massif in summer.

Pyrenees-Mont Perdu, France and Spain 2008

The Park is uninhabited but the buffer zone is home to 19 communities, five in permanent and 14 transhumant settlements.

Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park, India 2008

The local people are the Bhotiya, an ethnic Tibetan group who lived by trading with Tibet via the Niti valley until the 1962 war with China, by transhumant herding up and down the valley, and on resources from the forests.

Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park, India 2008

The main economic activity in the region is agriculture, and the grasslands in Barotseland are part of a transhumant farming system where people and their livestock move between the floodplain in the dry season and the more wooded uplands in the rainy season.

Western Zambezian grasslands 2008